Match Codes

Matches in the G category indicate that the candidate is located at the geographic centroid with the following possible accuracy levels. Not all levels of accuracy are possible for all countries.

• G0—Country centroid. This is not returned for GeocodeAddressWorld.
• G1—State or province centroid. For Japan, this indicates a prefecture (ken) match.
• G2—County centroid. For Japan, this indicates a city (shi) match.
• G3—City centroid. For Japan, this indicates a municipality subdivision or sub-city (oaza) match. For Australia, Local Government Authority (LGA) information can be returned from the Street Range Address Database only (not the G-NAF database).
• G4—Locality centroid. For Japan, this indicates a city district (chome) match.

Matches in the Z category indicate that no street match was made for one of the following reasons:

• You specified to match to postal code centroids. The resulting point is located at the postal code centroid with four possible accuracy levels.
• There is no close match and you specified to fall back to postal code centroid

The Z category contains the following accuracy levels:

• Z0—Postal Code match, no coordinates available (rare occurrence).
• Z1—Postal Code centroid match.
• Z3—Full postal code centroid match. For Canada, this is an FSALDU centroid.
• Z6—Postal Code centroid match for point ZIP.